It's pretty high if you're not one of those people who upgrade your PC every single year. Mine is 3 years old and sits somewhere between minimum and recommended specs. I have 8 GB RAM, a GeForce 470 GTX GPU with 1280 MB RAM and a quad-core AMD CPU.

High settings shouldn't be a problem for my notebook but it's no surprise that the requirements are pretty high.
I doubt 3gb vram are really necessary though, i bet my bros 7970m with 2gb will be able to handle it quite well even on high settings.

I like how they put AMD down for 6 cores when their quad cores will work perfectly fine for that. They are just trying to make it look bigger than it really is. also, for what the 7870 can do, that card on newegg is like $179 so it's not bad at all for recommended specs. Also, windows 7 64 should also work just as good if not better anyway. lolz

This looks more about right for recommended specs though. Before BF3 came out DICE obviously got paid by Nvidia to push their highend GPU's and honestly, it did DICE no favors at all. Glad they pulled their head out of their asses this time around.

Oh definitely. I wasn't actually going to upgrade to Haswell. But I'm a little fearful of Broadwell which will be BGA (the cpu soldered on), which means I will have missed ivy, haswell, broadwell and who knows when lakewell (I think it's lakewell iirc) will come out. So i'm thinking of biting the bullet and going for haswell to stay somewhat current until such time as broadwell's era has passed. Nothing definite yet, but it's that damn itch

Besides, being a keen collector, my current rig only gets relegated to second place - ie. resides a spot next to my main rig of each gen

Think I would just have to upgrade my GPU for my rig and I should be ok to play on high and my rig below is now 2 years old I may look into upgrading the CPU/BOARD/RAM next year looking into quad channel RAM and the higher end of a Ivy Bridge

I'm still on the fence as to whether I'll just get a better graphics card or just buy the PS4 version. I still need to see some comparisons at launch to see what all graphically features they cut out of the next gen console versions. Battlefield 4 is really pushing the graphics envelope above and beyond as expected.

My three year old PC should still smack this game around like a red-headed step child. My AMD CPU is a quad core but should still handle everything fine. I do think the recommended specs are a bit inflated though.

My three year old PC should still smack this game around like a red-headed step child. My AMD CPU is a quad core but should still handle everything fine. I do think the recommended specs are a bit inflated though.

I thought you had the Six Core 1055T Morg ?? Also remember you saying you were building your own case ??